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noun

Browning n.

The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.

(Masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

verb

Brown v. t. (past & past part. browned; pres. part. browning)

To make brown or dusky. "A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves."

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

Brown v. i. To become brown.

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Etymology of 'Browning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Browning" Quotes from Famous Books

... smoothed itself out, a long cramped scroll,"—her conscience placated on the score of her deserted guests, Nancy was quoting Browning to herself, as she widened the distance between herself and them. "I wonder why I have this irresistible tendency to shake the people I love best in the world at intervals. I am such a really well-balanced and rational individual, ...

— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley

... the hour is come to get ready the midday dinner. Fanchon's grandmother stirs up the drowsy fire; then she breaks the eggs on the black earthenware platter. Fanchon is deeply interested in the bacon omelette as she watches it browning and sputtering over the fire. There is no one in the world like her grandmother for making omelettes and telling pretty stories. Fanchon sits on the settle, her chin on a level with the table, to eat the steaming omelette and drink the sparkling cider. But her grandmother eats her dinner, ...

— Child Life In Town And Country - 1909 • Anatole France

... crowned with Brunelleschi's cupola, and rich in sculpture and stained glass, is, as it were, a symbol of Florence, the shrine of art. Browning, in his inspired vision of St. Peter's at Rome in Christmas Eve, catches Byron's note to ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... this poem, the first question that comes to us is "What was the 'good news from Ghent?'" But we find on looking up the matter that the whole incident is a fanciful one; Browning simply imagined a very dramatic situation, and then wrote this stirring poem about it. And surely he has made it all seem very real to us. We feel the intense anxiety of the riders to reach Aix on time—for we are given to understand ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester

... does not pull down Jupiter himself, no one else will. It would be exasperating, if it were not so funny, to see these poets leading their heroes through blood and destruction to the conclusion that, as Browning's David puts it (David of all people!), "All's Love; ...

— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw

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